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Thursday, 26 January 20172017 Australian of the Year Emeritus Professor Alan Mackay-Sim has been awarded Australian of the Year for stem cell research which has led to groundbreaking advances in the treatment of spinal cord injuries.Subjects: awards, news

Wednesday, 21 October 2015PM's Science Prizes An engineer who helped the mining industry create billions of dollars of extra value using bubbles has been awarded one of the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science.Subjects: awards, chemistry, news

Thursday, 8 October 2015Nobel Prizes Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work on mapping how cells repair damaged DNA, giving insight into cancer treatments.Subjects: awards, chemistry, news

Tuesday, 6 October 2015Nobel Prizes Three scientists from Japan, China and Ireland whose discoveries led to the development of potent new drugs against parasitic diseases such as malaria and elephantiasis have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.Subjects: infectious-diseases-other, malaria, awards, news

Monday, 5 October 2015Nobel Prizes We take a look at five things that are guaranteed to stop even the most brilliant researcher from taking home one of the world's most prestigious, and occasionally controversial, awards.Subjects: medical-research, awards, chemistry, physics, research, news

Friday, 18 September 2015Ig Nobel Prizes Australians who worked on two studies - one to uncover how to "unboil" an egg, the other to identify the presence of the word "huh" in 31 languages - have been recognised in the Ig Nobel Prizes.Subjects: awards, news

Thursday, 27 August 2015Eureka Prizes A single-atom transistor capable of crunching enormous amounts of data has been recognised as a breakthrough achievement in the prestigious Eureka Science Prizes.Subjects: science-and-technology, awards, news

Wednesday, 22 October 2014This photo of lions resting with their cubs in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park is the winning image in the 2014 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.Subjects: animals-and-nature, awards

Thursday, 9 October 2014Nobel Prizes A trio of scientists have won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for smashing the size barrier in optical microscopes, allowing researchers to see individual molecules inside living cellsSubjects: awards, microbiology, chemistry, news

Tuesday, 7 October 2014Nobel Prizes John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser have won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Medicine for discovering the brain's internal positioning system, helping humans find their way and giving clues to how strokes and Alzheimer's affect the brain.Subjects: alzheimers-and-dementia, awards, neuroscience, news

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